Meeting in the city today, so this has to be a quickie. The city means a suit and tie. My job is usually casual dress but I used to work for a multinational and wore a suit everyday. I actually liked that, a suit being the closest men can come to any sartorial elegance.
I put on the dark blue pinstripe, crisp white shirt and blue and gold tie and stared at myself in the mirror. A somewhat unfamiliar person looked back, my longer hair was at odds with how I usually appeared when formally dressed, the suit did not seem to hang as well, I have lost weight.
There was also something about the eyes and the face, the woman inside was starting to shine through after five or so months on hormones. Wishful thinking, perhaps but I am sure I could perceive some subtle changes.
Male drag? I hope no one reads me?
Hugs,
April
I put on the dark blue pinstripe, crisp white shirt and blue and gold tie and stared at myself in the mirror. A somewhat unfamiliar person looked back, my longer hair was at odds with how I usually appeared when formally dressed, the suit did not seem to hang as well, I have lost weight.
There was also something about the eyes and the face, the woman inside was starting to shine through after five or so months on hormones. Wishful thinking, perhaps but I am sure I could perceive some subtle changes.
Male drag? I hope no one reads me?
Hugs,
April
'The eyes are the windows of our soul' is never truer than for those of us who lead this double life. Fortunately, most people won't have a clue as to why yours are twinkling more than in the past these days.
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Hugs
From more than one close shave with difficult-to-remove nail varnish or eye-liner (including one entire Sunday after a support group meeting when I forgot I was wearing pale pink nail varnish until half way through the day) I'd say that they won't notice anything because they will see what they expect to see.
ReplyDeleteExactly, Jenny. People see what they want to see and what you want them to see. They have no reason to think you are pretending to be a man, so they won't think anything like that. Put your hair up in a ponytail, wear some butch glasses and keep the ear jewelry simple and no one thinks anything but maybe you're some kind of post-modern hippie.
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